Thomas Jefferson Byrd

While staying with his preacher grandfather, a sheltered teenage boy watches controversy unfold on the streets of Brooklyn during his summer vacation.

Frustrated when his ideas for a TV series about real African Americans are rejected, Harvard-educated black writer Pierre Delacroix (Damon Wayans) angrily creates a show--a modern-day minstrel show.

A White soldier deserts the Union Army and is rescued by a free Black man operating a section of the Underground Railroad. But when a ruthless slave catcher discovers the secret network, he conspires to bring it burning to the ground.

A struggling lawyer decides to spruce up his marriage by hiring Jade, a bisexual stripper/prostitute fighting a custody battle with her ex-husband for their 4 year-old son, for a threesome menage-a-trois only to have all of them suffer the after-affects.